St. Nikolaus (Untereschenbach)

St. Nicholas, north side

room

Choir room

St. Nikolaus is a church in Untereschenbach named after the Greek bishop Nikolaus von Myra , which belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Andreas (Wassermungenau) in the Windsbach deanery .

Parish

Originally St. Nikolaus was a branch of St. Otto in Hergersbach . After this church had been completely destroyed in the Thirty Years War and was not rebuilt, St. Nikolaus initially belonged to the parish of St. Margareta (Windsbach) , from 1729 to St. Andreas, after it had been elevated to parish church.

Originally, the service was only held once a year on the Sunday of the church fairs - the Sunday after Aegidius (September 1st) - otherwise only for funerals. Today, in addition to the casualia (baptism, wedding, funeral), there is an early church service every two weeks.

Building history

St. Nikolaus is a fortified church that was built around 1400 on a hill. A little later, a cemetery was also laid out behind the defensive walls. The church was partially destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The Gothic style choir tower has been preserved. The nave was rebuilt in 1709 and 1769 in the Baroque style. Most of the furnishings also date from this period (pulpit 1669, font and organ case 1720, gallery 1709), although the altar is from the 19th century. The original Gothic altar was brought to Ansbach in 1669 by Margrave Karl Wilhelm Friedrich .

In 1853 maintenance work followed, u. a. the tower was raised so that the clock could be seen in the fields and the chiming of the bell could be heard better. In 1982 the exterior was extensively renovated by the residents of Untereschenbach. In 1988 the interior was renovated. In 1989, the neo-Gothic altarpiece with a painting of the risen Christ was taken over from the St. George and Vitus Church in Sachsbach . It was made in 1905. In 2003, three more bells were purchased in addition to the two existing bells, which were cast by the Perner company in Passau.

Building description

The choir tower is in the east. It is three-story and ends with a pyramid-shaped pointed helmet. In the choir floor there is an arched window on the south and east side, and the sacristy connects to the north side. On the first floor there are arcuate sound holes on all sides, on the second floor a pair of small arcuate sound openings and dials on the north and east side on each side. The hall building in the west has three axes with arched windows and ends with a gable roof at the height of the first tower floor. The arched portal is on the south side.

The single-nave hall ends with a flat wooden ceiling. Wood galleries have moved in on the north and west sides. The wooden pulpit with a polygonal basket and sound cover is attached to the south side. The baptismal font is in the north-western area of ​​the hall. The hall is connected to the choir on the east side by a round arch portal. There is the high altar with an attachment.

literature

• Karl Gröber, Felix Mader : City and district of Schwabach (=  The art monuments of Bavaria . Middle Franconia 7). R. Oldenburg, Munich 1939, DNB  366496239 , p. 381-384 .
• Karl Dunz : Windsbach - home and cultural history of the city with all districts . Neuendettelsau 1985, p. 282-284 .
• Gilbrecht Greifenberg: St. Nikolauskirche Untereschenbach . In: Deanery info for the congregations in the Evangelical Dean's District Windsbach . Spring, 2015, p. 2 .
• Horst Heissmann (Ed.): ... in the midst of you: 200 years of the Windsbach deanery . History, Parishes & Institutions. Erlanger Verlag for Mission and Ecumenism, Neuendettelsau 2009, ISBN 978-3-87214-801-8 , p. 70 .
• Manfred Jehle: Church conditions and religious institutions on the upper Altmühl, Rezat and Bibert: Monasteries, parishes and Jewish communities in the Altlandkreis Ansbach in the Middle Ages and in modern times (=  Middle Franconian Studies . Volume 20 ). Historical Association for Middle Franconia, Ansbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-87707-771-9 , p. 183-184 .
• Günther Zeilinger with e. Working group d. Dekanates (Ed.): Windsbach - a deanery in Franconia (=  series of portraits of Bavarian deanery districts ). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1987, ISBN 3-87214-220-8 , p. 84-86 .

Web links

Commons : St. Nicholas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ G. Zeilinger (Ed.), P. 84; K. Dunz, p. 282.
2. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 183.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} G. Greifenberg, p. 2.
4. ↑ G. Zeilinger (Ed.), P. 84.
5. ↑ ^{a b} K. Gröber, p. 381; K. Dunz, p. 284.
6. ↑ K. Gröber, p. 384; K. Dunz, p. 284.
7. ↑ K. Dunz, p. 284.

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 39.7 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 28.4 ″  E